Scope and Contents From the Record Group: This collection contains both the personal and professional papers of Edith Simon, documenting her career as an artist and writer. The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and ephemera documenting her artistic work. The broad scope of the material may be summarised as follows:Boxes 1-6. ...

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: This collection contains both the personal and professional papers of Edith Simon, documenting her career as an artist and writer. The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and ephemera documenting her artistic work. The broad scope of the material may be summarised as follows:Boxes 1-6. ...

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: This collection contains both the personal and professional papers of Edith Simon, documenting her career as an artist and writer. The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and ephemera documenting her artistic work. The broad scope of the material may be summarised as follows:Boxes 1-6. ...

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: This collection contains both the personal and professional papers of Edith Simon, documenting her career as an artist and writer. The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and ephemera documenting her artistic work. The broad scope of the material may be summarised as follows:Boxes 1-6. ...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...

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Correspondence in this sub-series includes personal letters sent to Edith Simon and Eric Reeve, alongside letters sent from the couple to family members and friends. Where copy letters are present from Edith herself this has been noted in individual files. Correspondents of note include Edith's parents Walter & Grete Simon, her sister Inge Goodwin, and friends Joan Feisenberger, Arthur Koestler, John Mair, and David Mindline.

Scope and Contents Identified correspondents include Antonia Reeve; Igna Beth Heiden; Dr. Richard Friedenthal; David Higham Associates, London; Eric Reeve; Tina Colville and Christopher Lucas; possibly James Bennett; possibly 'Joan' Ronald; Inge Goodwin; possibly Susan Kaufman; Walter F. Simon and Grete Simon; Ruth Lerner; Marie L. Melvin; and possibly Louis Velleman. File also includes an untitled short story (30 October 1964) and a Christmas carol (11 December 1965) by Jessica Reeve; and a...

Scope and Contents File contains letters from 'Betsy'; Antonia Reeve; 'Lady Fraser; possibly Christopher Lucas; Inge and Dennis Goodwin; Simon Reeve; 'Myra'; Susan Jacobs; 'Philip'; 'Fiona'; possibly 'Bunny'; Helen Smailes; 'Mado'; Eric Reeve's parents, Irene Vera Gill & William Ernest Reeve; 'Pauline'; 'Marjorie'; Ruth Lerner; and 'Dodo'. File also includes an undated photocopied magazine article on the sculpter Belinda RushJansen, sent by the artist to Edith Simon; and a photograph set at the...

Scope and Contents This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...

Scope and Contents Edith Simon [Mrs Edith Reeve] and Dr Joan Basden were housed at Mortonhall House, Edinburgh, with their husbands, Dr Eric Reeve and Eric Basden, who were attached to the National Animal Breeding and Genetics Research Organisation in the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. The folder contains five 'paper-cut' Christmas cards, 1967-1969 and n.d., handmade by Edith Simon for Joan Basden and her family; letter, 30 August 1957, on the occasion of Joan and Eric...

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File contains a letter from Antonia Reeve to her aunt Inge Goodwin; a letter from Jessica Reeve to her father Eric Reeve; a letter from Eric Reeve to Edith Simon; and a letter from Edith Simon to Dr. Downs of the British Steel Corporation concerning a sculpture project.

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File contains letters and illustrated greeting cards, and one card also from Inge Goodwin (née Simon) to her parents Walter and Grete.

Scope and Contents File contains illustrated cards and letters. Family correspondents include Inge and Dennis Goodwin and their children Julia and Alan, and Edith and Eric Reeve and their own children Antonia, Jessica, and Simon, writing individually and collectively to both Walter and Grete Simon. Other identified correspondents include Ellen Nora Kurtz; possibly 'Bella' Kaufman; 'Cilly'; 'Edel'; and 'Jan'. File also includes two unidentified group photographs, possibly of the Simon family...

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File contains greeting cards and letters. Family correspondents include Edith and Eric Reeve and their children Antonia, Jessica, and Simon, writing individually and collectively to both Walter and Grete Simon. File also contains newspaper cuttings relating to Edith Simon's writing career.

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Family correspondents include Edith and Eric Reeve and their children Antonia, Jessica, and Simon, writing individually and collectively to both Walter and Grete Simon. File also includes a letter addressed to Walter and Grete from possibly 'Frank/Franz'; a short story entitled 'The Visitor' by Jessica Reeve; and a poem entitled 'The Jungle' by Simon Reeve (February 1963).

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This series contains notebooks, manuscript drafts, typescript drafts, press cuttings, and research notes relating to Edith Simon's various writing projects, encompassing her books, plays, and screenplays, as well as some unrealised works.

The tete-a-beche style is used by Simon in most notebooks, writing from both ends of each volume.

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This series contains Edith Simon's personal and family correspondence alongside more professional communications with her literary agents, publishers, gallerists, and members of the public.

Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...

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Correspondence touches on Edith's writing and artistic careers, with letters from publishers, literary agents, and gallerists included, amongst others. Files titled as 'correspondence from individuals' have been placed in this sub-series rather than the previous 'family and personal correspondence' sub-series as the nature of the discussions therein appear to relate more specifically to Edith's professional projects.